Responsible Learner

I have always considered myself to be a responsible learner. Maybe I don’t do every single assignment to my teachers’ exact liking, but I always try my hardest and manage to pull through and get a good grade in almost every class I have ever taken. Math has never been a strong suit of mine, and I don’t think it ever will be. But I’ve known since freshman year that I need at least three years of math to get into a University of California. About halfway through my first semester of Intermediate Algebra, I had a failing grade. But I stayed for tutoring after school with Ms. Himes and ended up bumping my grade up from an “F” to a “B”. That isn’t the first time that happened to me either. Like I said, I try my hardest and the hard work and extra time I put into my schoolwork usually shows in my final grade.

Another way I meet the standard of being a responsible learner, is the fact that I applied, and got accepted to nine four-year universities including SDSU, SFSU, Northern Arizona, University of California Merced, and University of California Santa Cruz. It isn’t easy to get into one college in this day and age with budget cuts and higher competition, let alone nine. I worked hard to finish all my A-G courses, which are required for the UC school system, as well as go above and beyond with electives and extra-curricular activates to set myself apart from the other thousands of applicants to each of these universities.